Gypsy Rose Blanchard welcomes baby girl with boyfriend Ken Urker
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has welcomed her first child, a baby girl, with boyfriend Ken Urker.
Urker announced the birth on Instagram with a heartfelt photo of himself alongside Blanchard and their new baby girl. “Welcoming 2025 with the greatest gift of all,” read the caption.
In the image, Urker can be seen standing next to Blanchard, who spent eight years in prison for her role in the 2015 murder of her allegedly abusive mother.
The author and reality TV star, 33, announced she was pregnant in a July 9 YouTube video titled “I’m Pregnant, My Journey So Far.” She also shared images from a photoshoot with Urker on her Instagram page at the same time.
“This was not planned at all. This was completely unexpected, but we’re both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood,” Blanchard said in her video, which she also excerpted on TikTok.
Blanchard, who was released from prison in December 2023, also addressed concerns about her ability to navigate motherhood.
“I know that there are going to be people who feel like I’m not ready to be a mother,” she said. Her response? “I don’t know if anyone’s really ready to be a mother.”
“I just want to be a good mother for my child. I want to be everything my mother wasn’t,” she said.
On Aug. 10, Blanchard revealed the sex of her baby in a short video. “The moment y’all have been waiting for… It’s a girl!” Blanchard wrote in the caption. “Ken and I are over the moon and are so excited to start our family.”
Later the same month, the “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” star displayed her growing baby bump in an Instagram picture that showed her wearing a white crop top with green shorts.
Blanchard is believed to have been a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which a caretaker — in her case, her own mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard — makes someone ill or creates the illusion of them being ill in order to receive attention.
While testifying about her role in her mother’s murder, Blanchard described how her mother sought medical attention for her throughout her life and had her treated for medical conditions that she didn’t actually have, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy,
Blanchard also described how her mother made her use a wheelchair and an oxygen tank although she required neither, according to the Springfield News-Leader.
She also revealed during a 2017 televised interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that her mother shaved her head to make her appear bald and forced her to eat through a feeding tube.
While on the stand, Blanchard admitted that she arranged for then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mother, according to Ozarks First. Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and is now serving a life sentence, according to The Springfield News-Leader.
While she was in prison, Blanchard met Urker after he wrote her a “letter of support” in 2017, she told “E! News“ in 2019. Urker proposed to her while she was still in prison in 2018. The two split in 2019.
In 2022, Blanchard went on to marry another man, Ryan Anderson, in a prison wedding ceremony. Blanchard and Anderson split in 2024.
Blanchard confirmed to People in May that she and Urker had resumed their romance.
“I’m in love,” she told the publication at the time. “(Urker) was a support when I was going through emotional hardship. But then I let myself open up to the feelings I’ve always had for him. For the first time in my life, I’m doing something that makes me happy — I’m prioritizing me.”
